Phillipsburg, New Jersey Phillipsburg, New Jersey View of Phillipsburg, New Jersey and "Free Bridge" taken from a park athwart the Delaware River on Rt.
View of Phillipsburg, New Jersey and "Free Bridge" taken from a park athwart the Delaware River on Rt.
Map of Phillipsburg in Warren County.
Inset: Location of Warren County highlighted in New Jersey.
Map of Phillipsburg in Warren County.
Inset: Location of Warren County highlighted in New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Philipsburg, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Philipsburg, New Jersey State New Jersey Phillipsburg is a town in Warren County, New Jersey, United States, a sister town/city to the cross-Delaware River industrialized partner of Easton, Pennsylvania. The town is positioned along the Delaware River in New Jersey, on the border with Pennsylvania, and is considered part of the Delaware Valley region and the easterly border of the Lehigh Valley region.
The Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line (formerly the chief line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad with a mix of chief line trackage combined long leased to the Central Railroad of New Jersey by its builder Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company), runs through Phillipsburg on its way cross river to Easton, Pennsylvania.
The Belvidere Delaware Railroad was leased (1871) and later acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad connecting the lower Poconos to Trenton, New Jersey and Philadelphia.
As of 2010 United States Census, the town's populace was 14,950, reflecting a diminish of 216 (-1.4%) from the 15,166 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 591 (-3.8%) from the 15,757 counted in the 1990 Census. The Central Railroad of New Jersey would soon follow with a connection, but the community's expansion (and for a long while, its importance) was that it reached the canal terminals of both the Delaware Canal and the Lehigh Canal by its cross-river cable ferry fitness to Easton, PA.
In 1853, the Lehigh Valley Railroad connected athwart the river with the CNJ and a passenger shortline barns , the Belvidere Delaware Railroad, as well as the Morris Canal, all inside Phillipsburg.
Phillipsburg was incorporated as a town by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 8, 1861, from portions of Phillipsburg Township (now Lopatcong Township). The town was titled for William Phillips, an early settler of the area. Phillipsburg served as the end of the Morris Canal for approximately 100 years from the 1820s to 1920s, which connected the town/city by water to the industrialized and consumer centers of the New York City area, with connections westward via the Lehigh Canal and Delaware Canal athwart the Delaware.
Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) In 1994, the New Jersey Legislature designated Phillipsburg as an Urban Enterprise Zone community.
Rising real estate prices indicate that these legislative stimulants have been somewhat effective. Phillipsburg has been chose as a site for the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Heritage Center (jointly with Netcong), a exhibition designed to help preserve and showcase the state's transit history. Phillipsburg also is home to the Phillipsburg Railroad Historians exhibition.
There is a L&HR snow flanger, Tidewater tank car, a CNJ box car owned by the Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, a 1922 Chestnut Ridge Mack railbus owned by the Lehigh Valley NRHS, a Public Service street car owned by the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society, a 44-ton GE locomotive and a 25-ton GE locomotive. They operate a miniature barns , the Centerville & Southwestern, that formerly ran in Roseland, New Jersey. Phillipsburg is positioned in the 7th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 23rd state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, Phillipsburg had been part of the 5th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections. New Jersey's Seventh Congressional District is represented by Leonard Lance (R, Clinton Township). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Doherty (R, Washington Township, Warren County) and in the General Assembly by John Di - Maio (R, Hackettstown) and Erik Peterson (R, Franklin Township, Hunterdon County). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). The Phillipsburg School District serves enhance school students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, including students from five sending communities who attend the district's high school. The precinct is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide, which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the oversight of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority. As of the 2014-15 school year, the precinct and its seven schools had an enrollment of 3,008 students and 323.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 9.3:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Early Childhood Learning Center (Grades Pre - K-K; 501 students), Phillipsburg Primary School (1&2; merged from Barber with 216 and Freeman with 208), Phillipsburg Elementary School (3-5; merged from Andover with 259 and Green with 360), Phillipsburg Middle School (6-8; 548) and Phillipsburg High School (9-12; 1,631). The Phillipsburg High School Stateliners have an athletic rivalry with neighboring Easton, Pennsylvania's Easton Area High School, which jubilated its 100th anniversary game on Thanksgiving Day 2006. In 2009, the 1993 squads from the Easton P-Burg Game met again for the Gatorade REPLAY Game to resolve the game, which ended in a 7-7 tie, with more than 13,000 fans watching as Phillipsburg won by a score of 27-12. The district's high school serves students from the Town of Phillipsburg and from five sending communities at the secondary level: Alpha, Bloomsbury (in Hunterdon County), Greenwich Township, Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township, as part of sending/receiving relationships with the respective school districts. Students from the town and from all of Warren County are eligible to attend Ridge and Valley Charter School in Frelinghuysen Township (for grades K-8) or Warren County Technical School in Washington borough (for 9-12), with special education services provided by small-town districts supplemented throughout the county by the Warren County Special Services School District in Oxford Township (for Pre - K-12). From the 1820s to 1920s, was the end of the Morris Canal, which connected it by water eastward to the Port of New York and New Jersey and westward via the Lehigh Canal athwart the Delaware River.
Five primary barns s converged in Phillipsburg, the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), the DL&W's Morris and Essex Railroad, the Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad (L&HR), Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR), and the Pennsylvania Railroad's (PRR) Belvidere Delaware Railroad. The CNJ first ran in 1852. Phillipsburg Union Station served CNJ and DL&W.
The CNJ tracks and bridge in Phillipsburg which was part of the CNJ chief line became part of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad chief line, the Lehigh Line now owned by Norfolk Southern Railway, while the PRR line in Phillipsburg is now the Belvidere and Delaware River Railway. The Easton Phillipsburg Toll Bridge joins Phillipsburg with Easton, Pennsylvania.
As of May 2010, the town had a total of 59.21 miles (95.29 km) of roadways, of which 54.51 miles (87.73 km) were maintained by the municipality, 2.98 miles (4.80 km) by Warren County, 1.18 miles (1.90 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 0.54 miles (0.87 km) by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission. See also: Category:People from Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
Gloria Decker (born 1933), politician who served as Mayor of Phillipsburg and as Executive Director of the New Jersey State Lottery Commission. a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"At the secondary level, the precinct serves not only students from the town of Phillipsburg which makes up 41% of the high school population, but also students from the encircling boroughs of Alpha and Bloomsbury, as well as the townships of Greenwich, Lopatcong, and Pohatcong." a b Municipal Guide to Public School Districts, Warren County, New Jersey.
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Phillipsburg / Easton Transportation Hub Early 20th Century, Morris Canal Greenway.
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"The 54-year old Brennan is a native of Phillipsburg, NJ who graduated as the all-time dominant scorer at Phillipsburg Catholic High School." "Being counted as a New Yorker is fine with some in Warren County, but Phillipsburg's mayor cannot see the benefit.
'I was disappointed when I saw it,' Mayor Gloria Decker said of the federal government moving Warren County into the New York urbane area." State of New Jersey Executive Order #57 issued by Governor James J.
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He majored in journalism at New York University, and except for a brief flirtation with the Episcopal priesthood as a seminarian at the New York General Theological Seminary, he has worked as a writer and editor for about 25 years." The Phillipsburg native is based in Boston these days and he's set to perform at thee Mine Street Coffeehouse in New Brunswick tomorrow evening..." Terry Kitchen's Home Page, accessed April 13, 2007.
"Born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Kitchen interval up first in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania..." "During his early childhood, Robert Meyner's family moved to Pennsylvania, and then to Phillipsburg and Paterson, New Jersey, and finally settled back in Phillipsburg in 1922, where the family lived in the home on Lincoln Avenue assembled by Robert Meyner's grandfather, Robert B.
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Phillipsburg, New Jersey - 1861 establishments in New Jersey - Faulkner Act (mayor council)New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zones - Populated places established in 1861 - Towns in Warren County, New Jersey
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